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[–] 203 points 1 year ago

Useless fuckers cries more than my newborn.

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  • [–] 125 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    ... they could face federal anti-racketeering charges that were designed to bust up organized crime.

    Not even the Onion could come up with something this bat-shit silly.

    It's now a crime for hurting baby Donnie's feelings. Oh, poor baby Donnie. Do you need a lollipop baby boy?

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    The defendants faced a wide variety of allegations — everything from throwing Molotov cocktails at police officers, to supplying food to protesters who were camped in the woods and passing out fliers against a state trooper who had fatally shot a protester. Each defendant faced up to 20 years in prison on the RICO charges.

    Only one of those things should be a crime!

    Edit: and tbh, I don’t really care about the one that is a crime

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  • [–] 91 points 1 year ago
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    "I mean, they were just shouting, basically, in his vicinity,” she said.

    “Repeat what you just said. I mean, honestly. So you’re asking whether there was damage done by four individuals screaming and yelling at the president of our United States while he’s trying to have dinner. That can’t be a serious question,” Blanche fired back.

    Jesus Christ...

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    “Repeat what you just said. I mean, honestly. So you’re asking whether there was damage done by four individuals screaming and yelling at the president of our United States while he’s trying to have dinner. That can’t be a serious question,” Blanche fired back

    On first reading, I legitimately thought this was driving home the point that no legally actionable harm was done but no, she he (oops) is actually saying their sock-puppet's fee-fees might have been hurt? Massive LOL

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Turns out they WILL let him get away with a shooting on 5th Ave in broad daylight. He shot the social contract right in the face 🤷

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Deteriorating old man spews word salad when his night goes slightly off-script

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He's pathetic

    How ANYONE thinks he's any sort of leader is beyond me

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Oh it's real simple. They go in through your nose . . . and they let you keep the piece of brain they take out.

    Well obviously that's a metaphor. The answer used to be Fox News, now it's some unholy conglomeration of podcasts and YuKKKTube channels along with Fox News.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah yeah, release the Epstein files.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I love how the free speech guys support all of this

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Lets see if they can get a grand jury to indict them. They’ve gotten a bunch of no bills already so one more will be fitting.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    "Could" face RICO charges but WILL not. Because nothing the protesters did was a violation of any part of the RICO act.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sadly what I've seen from the judicial system whenever trump starts to throw laws around hasn't been a stellar response, so while I'd like to have full faith in said system, I don't.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    True. But Rico sounds scary since it’s always used against gangs and the mob. So they will keep saying it to make it sound scary

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    And it gives their followers something to latch onto, and repeat over and over. It gets traction with their own people. If you were to ask them how their protesting is a RICO issue, they'll go blank.

    It's like back when a few podcasters talked about FISA warrants for a few minutes, and suddenly every MAGA thought they had doctorate level expertise on FISA warrants. Now they like to randomly toss that buzzword into a discussion, and get all arrogant when you don't instantly understand the connection to FISA warrants, because it isn't relevant at all.

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  • [–] 170 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    America is dead. Welcome to the new shit show.

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  • [–] 152 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I believe the US is fully illegitimate now. POTUS doesn't follow the constitution. Congress passes unconstitutional laws. SCOTUS wipes its ass with the constitution.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Of course it is. Most people however still haven't figured that out

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago*

    We're still in a pre-collapse period where people still think the stock market represents the economy and that stocks aren't incredibly overvalued.

    Once there is mass starvation from hyperinflation, I suspect people will figure out something's wrong.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The real question is once people come to terms with it.... what will be done?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You're looking at it. You all know.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It took millions of deaths and the largest military mobilization in the history of the world to stop Hitler.

    The United States is exponentially more powerful than Nazi Germany.

    Everyone needs to do the math as it's now time to decide whether fight, flee or comply is going to be your family's plan.

    Everyone needs to at least be using VPNs, seeding torrents for important information and media, and using decentralized and open source software as much as possible.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    There’s few weaker positions than an authoritarian attacking dissent.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    MAGAs Alpha Male everyone 🤣

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What a completely stupid waste of resources and degradation of the meaning of law & justice. If the words and application are made up, the whole thing loses meaning. Never mind a sane prosecutor knowing there’s little chance in court.

    People called you a shitty name. Aren’t you supposed to “be a man” and just get over it? Isn’t this just snowflake behavior? /s

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Well good thing we have a Constitution to protect us, right everyone? I think we should all be making sure we have hard copies for the future or it too will be destroyed like Wikipedia probably will be.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fun fact: Some dictatorships also have constitutions "guaranteeing" freedom of speech.

    https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/lawsregulations/201911/20/content_WS5ed8856ec6d0b3f0e9499913.htm

    Article 35 Citizens of the People’s Republic of China shall enjoy freedom of speech, the press, assembly, association, procession and demonstration.

    This is America right now.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    小狗狗乖乖听话,告诉你的主人习总去吃屎。

    Lmao 10 hours account trying to lecture me. Guess what, fuck the one child policy, they tried to terminate me but failed LOL, I'm still alive, can't even enforce your beloved authoritarian policies. Me being alive is pissing like on the CCP's emblem.

    My direct experience is not a "liberal pill" LOL.

    Sure go ahead and make more spam with your 10 hour account. Its the "Antiyanks" again 🤣

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The Confederates never, ever gave a fuck about the law, freedom, the Constitution. They don't even give a fuck about things like the 2nd amendment.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    At the beginning of the term Pam Bondi is in a televised meeting with the president talking about taking away peoples' guns that have been accused of crimes in state courts, then if the person gets a not guilty charge, for the feds to give the guns back if they want to, to keep them if they don't want to.

    So you get accused, the cops come along take all of your guns, leaving you at the mercy of everybody with guns before you have been convicted of anything. It is more than a slippery slope this is over the fucking edge of the government trying to ursurp the rights of Americans and turn us into slaves.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    "says"? It's a threat. The president is threatening protesters who exercised their 1st amendment.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He recently said George Soros should face RICO charges, this is the obvious continuation of that thought.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Oh my God, the amount of Idiocracy is off the charts with this bullshit.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Reminder that Idiocracy had a good President.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    President Camacho was made aware of a major issue and he found the smartest man on earth to fix it.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Dude is so used to being scared of that acronym he’s throwing it at eveyone he doesn't like?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    That sounds harder to get a grand jury to agree to move forward with charges on than a ham sandwich.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Grand Juries are actively practicing jury Nullification. Take for example the protester who literally threw a sandwich and hit a cop. It's on video. He threw it, it hit a cop, it was technically assault on a police officer. The DC grand jury nullified it, they could not get 12 votes.

    This has happened over 9 times since Trumps "crime fighting surge" started. They are not enforcing his evil.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    He threw it, it hit a cop, it was technically assault on a police officer.

    Technically, throwing a grain of rice at someone is also an assault. That's where common sense comes into play.

    Grand juries are part of the system in order to make sure that bullshit charges like that don't make it to court. And yes, I'm also aware that prosecutors know how to game the system to get indictments. But the grand jusy system still serves as a sometimes-reliable 2-inch crap filter.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    “Is it sheer happenstance that individuals show up at a restaurant where the president is trying to enjoy dinner in Washington, D.C., and accost him with vile words and vile anger?” Blanche asked CNN host Kaitlan Collins.

    How nice that he can afford to go out to eat at a restaurant.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm sure I know the answer, but does anyone who knows RICO better than me explain how the fuck that charge would apply?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Their argument will likely be that a protest is an organized event, so if protestors commit crimes that's organized crime.

    It's a bullshit argument, of course, but that's never stopped them before.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (13 children)
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    They don't even need to make it stick. Just being arrested for something like this can ruin a person's life, and the legal bills could be financially ruinous.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    It won't get that far. DC grand juries are refusing to indict for these trumped up charges.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    "Have you ever been arrested for a felony?"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Never seen a job application with that on it. "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" Sure, but never what you said.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Here is a lawyer who says that it's one of their most common cases, employers who ask if somebody has been arrested at a job interview.

    https://www.reaveslegal.com/faqs/-have-you-ever-been-arrested-.cfm

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    It apparently varies from state to state if, and when, they can ask that question. It's also worth pointing out that any lawyer worth their salt (like the lawyers who work on behalf of the ACLU) would take steps to see that record erased or limited in how it can be used.

    And unless you are completely desperate, why would you work for someone who looks down on you for being arrested for standing up to fascists? Being arrested for that is a badge of honor.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (4 children)

    By the way, Trevita17, I can see that you downvoted my other comment. Did you do this in retaliation, thinking that I had downvoted your comment? I didn't, and you can see that with this link, which is the same service I used to see your downvote. I don't approve of using downvotes like this. Comment downvotes should be reserved for trolls, spam, and serious misinformation.

    https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/19467935

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why would your approval factor into my behavior at all? I'll remove the downvote, but get your ego in check.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I was hoping to get buy in about the uses of downvotes.

    I think that if people know that comment downvotes are public information and if they agree on the proper use of downvotes, we will be able to identify bad actors.

    On the other hand, if people believe incorrectly comment downvotes have been unethically used against them, then anybody, even me, may let their demons get the better of them, and vote in revenge. So it's very important for people to know it's public information.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fake internet points are not worth this much deliberation. There are so many actual problems in this world you could be worried about, and you've chosen this. Make a different choice, a more impactful choice. You clearly have a good head on your shoulders, if a bit swollen. You should put it to good use.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    From my perspective, comment votes are simply information, the same as comment contents.

    And I think bad faith downvotes interfere with conversations more than bad faith comments do. I don't do this, but I am convinced that people see a downvote and will immediately think worse of a comment. One downvote leads to more, and it often doesn't matter what the contents of the comment are.

    I am glad that you are so complimentary towards me, despite disagreeing with my behavior. That demonstrates character in itself. All I can say to defend myself is to say that as long as I'm using this website, I'll feel motivation to improve the discourse. I just have my own ideas about what that entails.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Still, an employer might have two applicants who they otherwise have a hard time selecting between, but one has been arrested and one hasn't. They will probably choose the one who hasn't been arrested. I would say that's the bias against somebody who has been arrested is the whole point of asking the question.

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  • [+] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    Why not charge them with dancing with a mailman too, and hey, I think one of their taillights is out.

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